Education
- B.S. Architecture, Facultad de Arquitectura, Universidad de San Carlos de Guatemala. Project: Ibankinnal. Educational Center
- M.Sc. Regional and Environmental Planning, Facultad de Arquitectura, Universidad de Valparaíso - Chile. Project: The loss of the Cultural-Natural Symbiotic Relationship between the Mapuche and the Arauco Landscape
Biography
Joaquín Lopez-Huertas is the result of the mixing between the K’iche’ Mayan ethnicity and the Spanish settlers in the land known as Guatemala. He is currently getting a Ph.D. in City & Metropolitan Planning at the University of Utah. With more than eight years working with Indigenous Planning in Guatemala, Chile and the US, his research focuses on understanding the possibilities and implications of Indigenous Knowledges in Settler-State Planning